An Assessment of the KDICP and MDICP Data Quality

Simona Bignami, Georges Reniers and Alexander A. Weinreb
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Simona Bignami: Université de Montréal
Georges Reniers: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Alexander A. Weinreb: University of Texas at Austin

Demographic Research Special Collections, 2003, vol. 1, issue 2, 31-76

Abstract: This paper evaluates the quality of the data collected as part of the Kenya and Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Projects, two longitudinal household surveys that examine the role of social networks in influencing attitudes and behavior regarding family size, family planning, and HIV/AIDS in, respectively, rural Kenya and Malawi. We investigate three sources of non-sampling error: interviewer effects, response reliability and sample attrition, highlighting the interaction between them, and paying particular attention to their implications for AIDS-related behavioral research.

Keywords: agriculture; family planning; interviews; measurements; data quality; attrition; Malawi; Kenya; measurement; reliability; interviewer effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.S1.2

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